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		<title>Gazing at Semenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caster Semenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass-media - in images, video, and word - creates traveling spectacles and thus creates spectators in so many new ways and contexts. We consume the spectacle casually on our computers and television. Fascination with Semenya's genitals is all the story today, and surely will be for the next coming days. The assumption is that we have rights to this gaze, to look inside (prompting notions of biopower, no doubt) and outside her body (recalling Baartman's case). Why this comfortable assumption? Simply because we are, maybe, sports fans (though so few are actual track and field fans...not unimportant here!). Or because we can.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Through Barry; or, Postmodern Bonds</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/07/thinking-through-barry-or-postmodern-bonds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barry Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postmodernity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another post topic about which the internet needs no more words: Barry Bonds. I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out what to think about the Bonds scandal, which is really just baseball&#8217;s so-called &#8220;steroid era&#8221; bundled into one person at one particular moment. You know, breaking the really big record in baseball, the career homerun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing and Crying: Iraq</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/07/laughing-and-crying-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really think the internet needs yet another post on the War in Iraq. Yet, I want to say just a little bit, which is as much about two news stories as it is about a place in the Middle East. What a sad and no-win situation this whole &#8220;adventure&#8221; has become, no? Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Withdrawing the Spectator; or, Chamique&#8217;s Retirement</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/withdrawing-the-spectator-or-chamiques-retirement/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/withdrawing-the-spectator-or-chamiques-retirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamique Holdsclaw]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my obsession in this writing space: the gap between the spectacular play of images and the material reality of those images. It&#8217;s actually too easy. We&#8217;ve really lost that connection, or, at the very least, we&#8217;ve decided that that connection can be set aside without explanation. Sports is an exemplary site, but one shaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LeBro(w)n Politics</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/06/lebrown-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LeBron James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jordan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Charles P. Pierce at Slate.com wrote up some thoughts on LeBron James as &#8220;the next Michael Jordan.&#8221; Well-timed, of course, given his spectacular take-down of Detroit &#8211; honestly, it was a single-handed take-down &#8211; and the first visit to the NBA Finals starting last night. I don&#8217;t much disagree with the author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s playin&#8217;? Baseball after Racism</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2007/05/whos-playin-baseball-after-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2007/05/whos-playin-baseball-after-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 22:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Winfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorblindness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[race in baseball]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is baseball still America&#8217;s sport &#8211; that is, where we take &#8220;America&#8221; to be the United States? I think so, especially in light of the new discussion of race and baseball. The new discussion: the crisis (for better or worse, that&#8217;s the rhetoric) of falling African-American participation at all levels. The statistics have taken a [...]]]></description>
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